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Definition of Hopeful

Hopeful

  1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
  2. Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect.

Hopeful Quotations

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
Joel Osteen

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
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Hopeful Translations

hopeful in German is hoffnungsvoll
hopeful in Italian is speranzoso
hopeful in Norwegian is forventningsfull
hopeful in Spanish is esperanzado
hopeful in Swedish is hoppfull

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